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PyData London News November 2015

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Julia Computing received a $600k grant

  • Julia Computing received a $600k grant from the Moore foundation
  • Moore foundation have sponsored Software Carpentry and Jupyter ealier this year
  • Improve tools for academic data-analysis
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Plot.ly have open-sourced their graphing library

  • Open-sourced!
  • JSON-schema based, declarative graphing.
  • Enterprise edition, if you need that for your work.
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Upcoming conference reminders

PyDataAmsterdam 12th - 13th March

  • CFP is open
  • All Proposals are due by 14 February 2016
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PyData London - a year in review.

What a year!

We had half the year at Lyst ...

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... and the other half the year at AHL

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Ruby and Graham joined us as organisers

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We grew from around 900 members to 2,442

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Heck we began the biggest Python group in London

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">PyDataLondon meetup now *largest* Python group in London! Blimey, that only took a year! (Also-conf in a month!)</p>&mdash; pydatalondon (@pydatalondon) <a href="https://twitter.com/pydatalondon/status/602873037374025728">May 25, 2015</a></blockquote>
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The wimbledom tennis winner was predicted ...

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... oh yeah and we had a conference ...

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">what is deep learning? - Roelof Pieters <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/pydataldn15?src=hash">#pydataldn15</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/pydatalondon">@pydatalondon</a> <a href="http://t.co/YE0eD9k5Nq">pic.twitter.com/YE0eD9k5Nq</a></p>&mdash; The Thalesians (@thalesians) <a href="https://twitter.com/thalesians/status/612560585809633280">June 21, 2015</a></blockquote>
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at Bloomberg ...

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and raised ...

£26,400 for Numfocus